Nokia Lumia 925 Charging / Battery Problem?

I've had my Vodafone Nokia 925 for a couple of weeks now. Very happy with the phone & the Windows environment ... but I have a problem charging the battery.

The battery charges up to 100% OK but as soon as I disconnect the charger, the battery indicator falls to between 50% - 60%. I've allowed the phone to run down to 5% and recharged to 100% for several cycles but I still have the same issue. If I charge to 100%, disconnect the charger and immediately reconnect the charger, the phone says it has about 50% charge and then apprently continues to charge back up to 100% over the next 30 - 40mins. When I disconnect, back to around 50% again. My apparently half-full battery lasts for about 27hr (no calls, just a few email & SMS messages so basically standby time) before getting down to 5% - 10%. So, I'm not sure if the battery is bad or the battery indicator is just wrong.

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I'm happy to report that after several charging cycles and a couple of phone restarts, the problem has not returned. The Gremlin seems to have been a very temporary one.

Maybe I'm missing something but there didn't seem to be an easy way to quickly check the battery status as frequently as I needed to while keeping an eye on this issue. The standard icon didn't give me enough information so I used a free app from the Store simply called "Battery" (created by Arthur Semenov). The app puts an active tile on the start screen showing % battery life remaining. But it also records and displays battery use over time, both graphically and numerically (current discharge rate, average dischage rate, time since last charge, estimated time before next charge etc etc). I found it very useful.

One stat you might be interested in is "Longest Battery Life Time". With WiFi, Bluetooth & location all enabled and with light use, the battery took 44hrs to go from 100% to about 5%. With moderate use I'm easily getting 36hrs on one charge. This is light years ahead of my previous not-so-smart HTC Android phone that couldn't make it through a day without recharging and barely lasted 4 hrs if the WiFi was enabled but not connected.

The 925 is my first grown up Smart phone. I love the phone. I love Windows 8 and the integration of email, SkyDrive, Office and many other features with my Windows 8 tablet via my Microsoft account makes my life much easier. This was definitely the right choice for me, despite all the peer pressure to go down the iPhone/Pad route.

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Out of curiosity I did a soft reset. The battery status magically jumped from 37% to 87%. I topped it up to 100% and everything seems normal so far. First time I've seen the indicator at 100% since I've had the phone. I'm not quite ready to say it's fixed yet but it does seem like there was a gremlin in the works ..... fingers crossed!

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This is a strange one and it does sound like there was a bug somewhere.

Please keep an eye on this over the next week and let us know if anything changes.

James

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Re: Nokia Lumia 925 Charging / Battery Problem?

I'm happy to report that after several charging cycles and a couple of phone restarts, the problem has not returned. The Gremlin seems to have been a very temporary one.

Maybe I'm missing something but there didn't seem to be an easy way to quickly check the battery status as frequently as I needed to while keeping an eye on this issue. The standard icon didn't give me enough information so I used a free app from the Store simply called "Battery" (created by Arthur Semenov). The app puts an active tile on the start screen showing % battery life remaining. But it also records and displays battery use over time, both graphically and numerically (current discharge rate, average dischage rate, time since last charge, estimated time before next charge etc etc). I found it very useful.

One stat you might be interested in is "Longest Battery Life Time". With WiFi, Bluetooth & location all enabled and with light use, the battery took 44hrs to go from 100% to about 5%. With moderate use I'm easily getting 36hrs on one charge. This is light years ahead of my previous not-so-smart HTC Android phone that couldn't make it through a day without recharging and barely lasted 4 hrs if the WiFi was enabled but not connected.

The 925 is my first grown up Smart phone. I love the phone. I love Windows 8 and the integration of email, SkyDrive, Office and many other features with my Windows 8 tablet via my Microsoft account makes my life much easier. This was definitely the right choice for me, despite all the peer pressure to go down the iPhone/Pad route.

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Hi,Have a battery/charging problem with my phone.Put the phone on charge and was fully charged at 10.30pm but phone was completely flat the following morning.The phone will only hold its charge for a few hours also noticed that the phone and the charger seem to get very hot.I have taken the phone back to the local vodafone shop thinking i would get a replacement but the phone is being sent for repair,10 days and no phone..had to ask for on new sim to use in my old phone a N8 nearly 3 years old never had a problem with it and holds its charge for two day.

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Had my 925 for 3 weeks and now the battery has started playing up. Charged it up overnight on Saturday, but Sunday morning it said it was critical. I thought i hadn't connected properly (or some other user error!) Charged it yesterday morning, it was fine. Last night it said battery was low, charged it last night, this morning, critical again. Plugged it in, two minutes later, it said the battery was full so I unplugged it. Two minutes later it said it was critical again. Just had a webchat where I was told my handset would need to be sent off to be repaired, if they couldn't do it in store. Very unimpressed as phone is so new. When I said that, the webchat guy said it could be down to useage - ie I've broken it!!!!! Fortunately, I have just read Sciencemaster's posts above, and have followed the advice. My battery icon has shown critical battery level since this morning, so I switched the phone off and on again, and it came up as full. I have now downloaded the battery app, as recommended by Sciencemaster and battery is at 99%. I assume that my handset has been plagued by the same 'bug' as Sciencemaster. Please can you let you webchat advisors know as if I had listened to him, I would have been phoneless for 10-12 days and very unhappy. Thanks to Sciencemaster for the great advice.

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I have had my Lumia 925 for just over a week, and I am delighted with it. However, I have had one problem with battery.

At the start of using it, I would charge it in the evening and then leave it off-charge overnight in standby mode. In the morning I would have a 99-100% charge. At the end of the working day, with light use (I don't have time to visit hundreds of websites, and I only make a few calls) I would have 60-65% charge. This is brilliant. It would take about an hour to recharge to 100% again.

Yesterday, for the first time, when I activated the phone in the morning from standby the battery showed only 60% charge. It had drained 40% overnight without any use. 10 hours later, of very little use the battery was dead.

I read this thread and other forums on the net and carried out a soft-reset. This seems to have worked. This morning I had a 98% charge.

I am not concerned (yet) about this. I have upgraded from an Iphone 4s. I remember soft-reseting the iphone on several occassions due to errors (including battery drain).

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yea i had the same i was charging at it seemed to be like stuck on 20% then i restarted my fone and it jumped up to 81% but still wouldnt charge any more. i thought of maybe taking the battery out and switching it with my mates to see if it was jst the battery but unfortunatly u cant get the battery out

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Every time I go to charge it from the mains adapter the phone seems to wait for about 10 seconds before it beeps to let me know it's charging. On occasion i've left it to charge overnight to wake up to a very low battery.

This morning was one of those occasions, however when I try to put it on charge either from the mains adapter, or via PC (using a different cable) the charging icon just flashes between charging state and normal discharging almost like it has an intermittent connection. It's even popping up multiple times on the PC with the device connected notification.

I'd say it was a problem with the charger/cable, but with trying two different chargers and cables I'm convinced it's a problem with the phone.